S27.50

Non-billable

Unspecified injury of thoracic trachea

Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Additional Information

From parent codes: S00-T88 (Chapter 19)

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom S00-T88

Excludes1 means 'NOT CODED HERE!' An Excludes1 note indicates mutually exclusive codes: two conditions that cannot be reported together.

birth trauma (P10-P15)
obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

Use Additional CodeFrom S00-T88

The 'use additional code' note instructs that a secondary code should be added to provide more detail.

code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

More Specific Codes (8)

S27.5Injury of thoracic tracheaCategory→S27.51Primary blast injury of thoracic tracheaCategory→S27.52Contusion of thoracic tracheaCategory→S27.53Laceration of thoracic tracheaCategory→S27.59Other injury of thoracic tracheaCategory→S27.50XAUnspecified injury of thoracic trachea (initial encounter)Billable→S27.50XDUnspecified injury of thoracic trachea (subsequent encounter)Billable→S27.50XSUnspecified injury of thoracic trachea (sequela)Billable→

Chapter Information

Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Range: S00-T88

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Related ICD-10 Codes

More specific codes for S27.50

Injury of thoracic trachea

Primary blast injury of thoracic trachea

Contusion of thoracic trachea

Laceration of thoracic trachea

Other injury of thoracic trachea

Unspecified injury of thoracic trachea (initial encounter)

Unspecified injury of thoracic trachea (subsequent encounter)

Unspecified injury of thoracic trachea (sequela)